Andrew Symonds bares his physical streak

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Even at the best of times, people should think twice about charging naked at Andrew Symonds. The Queensland all-rounder is Australia’s version of Obelix, the boulder-carrying sidekick in the Asterix books. He hunts wild boars in his spare time and has a tendency to act first, think later.

Add into the mix the fact that Symonds has spent most of the winter’s matches against India in the middle of one argument or another - and that he was attempting to save Australia from a third defeat in a row when the incident happened in Brisbane yesterday - and it was clear that